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Windows 7: xp & windows 7 dual boot

A friend of mine made a dual boot system on my laptop. The problem is it loads windows 7 without going to the boot manager screen to allow me to choose which one i want. My laptop came with xp and it shows that the hard drive has been split. And it also doesn't have the recovery in the laptop.
Any ideas? thanks

xp & windows 7 dual boot

Win 7 , Ubuntu dual boot, windows wont boot, startup disk doesnt helpHi a couple of months ago my system crashed, windows 7 wouldnt boot, and I misplaced my installation disk. I had the problems several times since obtaining the computer several years ago. (Lenovo IDeaPad y450). I attributed the problem to what I believed was a bad hard disk, so I replaced it with a...

General Discussion

Windows 7 dual boot dual disksHi
If everything goes well I'll be building my first gaming desktop later this year.
One of the scenarios I'm considering is having 4 hard disks and two OSs,
a1, a2, b1, b2
the a disks would be 128 SSDs each with its copy of Win7,
the b disks would be 1 TB HDDs with data.
I want a1 (when...

Installation & Setup

Dual boot with Windows 7, and XP no longer appears in Boot ManagerHello,
I have been using windows xp for a long time. I have two actual HD, one partitioned into 4, and another without any partition, giving me a total of 5. I was using two instance of windows xp installed in drive C and another in drive E (both are actually located in just one HD, but the...

Installation & Setup

Recover Windows 7 boot on dual boot system with GRUB masterbootHi,
I have a dual-boot system Ubuntu/Windows 7. The Master boot loader is GRUB.
It worked fine until yesterday when, for some reason, Windows 7 refused to load anymore. I tried to repair with chkdsk, found and repaired some disk errors, but now the boot loader is damaged. The problem I have is...

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windows 7 and linux fedora dual boot with dual driveshello,
i have some questions regarding dual booting windows 7 home premium x64 with linux fedora 14 on dual independantly dedicated drives. i am a college student with moderate computer (windows) knowledge but am doing software development and would like to play around with some linux for a class....

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dual boot , reinstall the windows and lost dual bootHello Everyone ,
i was wondering if anyone could help me in this matter :
i have windows7 and Redhat on my Laptop , i have removed and reinstalled the Windows7 last night and after that lost the Dual boot option , in fact the system is booting on windows7 and there is no option to chose...